Definition: 1. A level tract of land. 2. A shallow box in which seedlings are started. 3. A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named. 4. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another. 5. Having no depth or thickness.
Use 'flat' in a sentence:
1. At the speed and height at which he was moving, he was never more than half a second from disaster.
2. It is very moving to see how much strangers can care for each other.
3. She described her experiences in Africa very movingly.
4. You're moving in very exalted circles!
5. She alone must have been the moving spirit behind the lawsuit that lost me my position.
6. Glaciers are moving rivers of ice.
7. Hers is a moving and ultimately triumphant story.
8. He junked all his old furniture before moving into his new home.
9. Another low is moving in from the Atlantic.
10. I made out three figures moving in the distance.
11. The current must have been steady and strong, for the boat kept moving forward smoothly, without meeting any obstacle, as thought it were being steered by some invisible hand.
12. The train was moving now at a snail's pace.
13. The victim lay prone without moving.
14. The bus was already moving when I jumped onto it.
15. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices.
16. She had often considered moving to Seattle.
17. the logistics of moving the company to a new building.
18. I was woken by the sound of someone moving around.
19. If his experiences then had been carefully recorded, it would undoubtedly have made a suspenseful and moving book.
20. Inflation is moving firmly downward.
21. She was always moving things around.
22. Her career is moving into top gear.
23. We are moving towards the cashless society.
24. We're moving out of our old house next week.
25. A bright moving object appeared in the sky at sunset.
26. He made his money with a fleet of moving vans.
27. The cold air masses are moving from Siberia towards Inner Mongolia.
28. She stood, swaying her hips, moving rhythmically.
29. He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
30. It's late—we'd better get moving.
31. The company's moving to Scotland.
32. Women are doing the job well. This is partly because women are increasingly moving into a man's world.
33. He was moving rapidly around the room.
34. But then the robber whipped out a gun, and everyone stopped moving.
35. Things are not moving as fast as we hoped.
36. He told the children to start moving clockwise around the room.
37. Moving house put a severe strain on our finances.
38. I can't face the upheaval of moving house again.
39. It was a moving moment for Marianne.
40. He dampened his hair to make it lie flat.
41. I made them a reasonable offer but they turned it down flat.
42. He told me I was flat-footed.
43. The blow knocked me flat.
44. He spoke in a flat monotone.
45. You can't go and that's flat!
46. I'm looking for a flat share.
47. The flat is very central ─ just five minutes from Princes Street.
48. They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
49. The condition of flat feet runs in families.
50. He gave a flat 'No!' to one reporter's question.
51. The road stretched ahead across the flat landscape.
52. They set up house together in a small flat in Brighton.
53. Do you live in a flat or a house?
54. He sings flat all the time.
55. Her voice was flat and expressionless.
56. The boat beached on a mud flat.
57. The countryside is flat and featureless.
58. I told him flat out 'No'.
59. We got a flat on the way home.
60. That note should be B flat, not B.
61. She had a tendency to sing flat.
62. The report is vividly written and very moving.
63. I am moving out on June 5th.
64. He felt very flat after his friends had gone home.
65. They changed the wheel in three minutes flat.
66. Things are moving painfully slowly.
67. Traffic is now moving more freely following an earlier accident.
68. We'll need a flat surface to play the game on.
69. Place the material on a flat surface, shiny side uppermost.
70. I need a flat surface to write on.
71. People used to believe the earth was flat.
72. The metal had been beaten flat.
73. We're moving house next month.
74. Exercise is the only way to get a flat stomach after having a baby.
75. She laid the book flat and opened it up.
76. The cloth should be laid flat.
77. Her request was met with a flat refusal.
78. Children from the flats across the street were playing outside.
79. We had to stop to fix a flat.
80. The housing market has been flat for months.
81. She told me flat she would not speak to me again.
82. Her quick hands suddenly stopped moving.
83. They pressed themselves flat against the tunnel wall as the train approached.
84. This portable seat folds flat for easy storage.
85. The high notes were slightly flat.
86. She keeps her flat very tidy.
87. That allegation is a flat-out lie.
88. Lie flat and let your knees bend.
89. A powerful snow storm is moving eastward.
90. He was hammering the sheet of copper flat.
91. Two men near him threw themselves flat.
92. Professor Krauss has been a moving force in the world of academic art criticism.
93. Many large old houses have been converted into flats.
94. We found a large flat rock to sit on.
95. People used to think the earth was flat.
96. Interest is charged at a flat rate of 11%.
97. Press the soil flat with the back of a spade.
98. She's moving abroad to make a fresh start.
99. He beat on the door with the flat of his hand.
100. Acrylic paints can be used to create large, flat blocks of colour.
101. Time is moving on.
102. The child watched, enthralled by the bright moving images.
103. It doesn't look as if we'll be moving after all.
104. Events are moving fast.
105. The new director has really got things moving.
106. The survey implies more people are moving house than was thought.
107. He could hear someone moving around in the room above.
